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computershit commented on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been   jakequist.com/thoughts/op... · Posted by u/jakequist
wqaatwt · a month ago
Really doubt it has a significant impact on mac mini sales…

And being fair ClawBot is a complete meme/fad at this point rather than an actual product. Using it for anything serious is pretty much the equivalent of throwing your credit cards, ids and sticky notes with passwords and waiting to see what happens…

I do see the appeal and potential case of the general concept of course. The product itself (and the author has admitted it themselves) is literally is a garbage pile..

computershit · a month ago
> Using it for anything serious

One man's trash is another man's serious

computershit commented on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?    · Posted by u/pugworthy
tlar · 4 months ago
I'm not going to give a direct recommendation on the hearing aids themselves as my personal options have been pretty limited due to profound hearing loss. I can say, however, that hearing aids are not the only thing that helps - especially with meetings/noisy environments.

I [recently wrote an article][0] going over my journey, but the recent technology that significantly improved my life has been live captions in glasses. Specifically, the ones from [Captify][1]. Not a paid sponsor at all, just a very happy customer.

Between the glasses for IRL settings and bluetooth/live captions on meet/etc, I've felt much more empowered in my working life.

  [0]: https://upsun.com/blog/tech-accessibility-hard-of-hearing/
  [1]: https://captify.glass/

computershit · 4 months ago
Does Captify perform any diarization?
computershit commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging   astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
runningmike · 7 months ago
All python packaging challenges are solved. Lesson learned is that there is not a single solution for all problems. getting more strings attached with VC funded companies and leaning on their infrastructure is a high risk for any FOSS community.
computershit · 7 months ago
> All python packaging challenges are solved.

This comes across as uninformed at best and ignorant at worst. Python still doesn't have a reliable way to handle native dependencies across different platforms. pip and setuptools cannot be the end all be all of this packaging ecosystem nor should they be.

computershit commented on Why are there no good dinosaur films?   briannazigler.substack.co... · Posted by u/fremden
mlsu · 8 months ago
Imho the first Terminator movie is way more than simple scifi action. It's a a reflection on Vietnam. Structurally, it's closer to a slasher/horror flick -- the action sequences are tense, tight, gritty, sparse. The main characters are completely helpless and totally undermatched by the monster. Reese is torn apart by PTSD and Sarah Connor goes through this immense psychological trauma during the film and is completely transformed by it.

The character of Reese in particular is very well crafted. A homeless Vietnam vet that you might find in LA in the early eighties. Totally paranoid, totally disconnected/alienated from "modern" society, equipped for a time and place that is totally disconnected from the world he is dumped into. There is a dialogue about institutional failure woven throughout the film: the cops (I'll point out: Arnold executes an entire police station full of cops in this film! Can you imagine that on screen today?) and especially the psychiatrist. Totally incapable of dealing with the demon that haunts the main characters.

There is a dialogue about heroism -- John Connor is apparently a hero, but none of the characters actually feel heroic, they're all just terrified, haunted, and helpless. There is this incredibly "important" thing (the war) but none of the characters actually feel it that way, nor does society. The portrayal of LA -- the cops, the gritty alleyways, the nightclub, the crappy motels... it's LA as experienced by a Vietnam vet.

The first Terminator movie stands head and shoulders above all others in the franchise. It's a truly incredible film and far underrated critically, I really recommend re-watching it with this in mind.

computershit · 8 months ago
> Structurally, it's closer to a slasher/horror flick

Having rewatched T1 very recently, I couldn't agree more with this. At one point I turned to my partner and asked what genre this actually was because all things pointed to horror.

computershit commented on Gene Hackman has died   nytimes.com/2025/02/27/ob... · Posted by u/romaniitedomum
MrBuddyCasino · a year ago
Drop your favourite Hackman movies!

Heres mine:

--= The Conversation (1979) =--

"Schizo surveillance guy gets a contract that starts to derail things" is the basic premise, but there is more going on - "it has layers".

Francis Ford Coppola filmed this in between Godfather I & II. I believe it is less famous only because the target audience is smaller, not due to its quality.

The editing is perfect, the pacing just right and the acting mostly top notch. Gene Hackman absolutely nails it.

I found the whole thing to be mesmerising and gripping until the very end. Underrated masterpiece.

May he rest in peace.

computershit · a year ago
Hoosiers, for sure. "My team is on the floor" was such a flex as a coach, it is still difficult for me to separate the man he played in that movie and the actor, to me they're one and the same.
computershit commented on Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations   github.com/finic-ai/finic... · Posted by u/jasonwcfan
computershit · a year ago
First, nice work. I'm certainly glad to see such a tool in this space right now. Besides a UI, what does this provide that something like Browserless doesn't?
computershit commented on New Apache Airflow Operators for Google Generative AI   cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/seeyam
ssahoo · 2 years ago
What alternative do you recommend?
computershit · 2 years ago
Prefect has more polish and is easier to get started than any of the existing options. We've been running their self-hosted for over three years and it basically stays out of the way.

We looked at Dagster as well as Airflow. I really, really liked Dagster but the BI team didn't.

I cannot imagine using Airflow for anything meaningful and respecting myself at the end of a work day. The local development experience was abysmal. Deployments sucked.

That being said, if you're not using anything except maybe cron right now, and if you don't care about the solution being a proper data pipelines orchestration platform trademark symbol, I'd recommend starting with Windmill.

computershit commented on Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard    · Posted by u/jamilbk
computershit · 2 years ago
Impressive work, congrats on the launch! Aside from the OSS perspective, how would you compare your service to Twingate?
computershit commented on Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line   alexwlchan.net/2024/creat... · Posted by u/ingve
1attice · 2 years ago
Cool, but consider monolith for this instead (https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith)

- Outputs a single .html file, consumable with any web browser on any platform

- Rust, so, you know, +1 HN (;D)

computershit · 2 years ago
Thx for the recommendation, wasn't aware of this

u/computershit

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